Godley Hut Original
Godley Hut Original
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30.5cm x 30.5cm
Originals are on stretched canvas with the image wrapping around the sides. They are ready to hang as is or you can take them to a framer and have them put in a tray frame.
This historic hut at the end of the Godley Valley in Mt Cook National park has provided shelter for climbers, trampers and hunters for over eighty years. It looks out to the terminal lake of the Maud and Grey glaciers and the Maud icefall fills the hut’s northern window. It was officially opened by two prominent figures in New Zealand mountaineering, AP Harper and GE Mannering on Christmas Eve 1934. Since then it has undergone a few renovations and paint jobs but retains its character and is a time capsule to earlier years.
Featured in the foreground of this painting are notothlaspi rosulatum or the penwiper plant as they’re more commonly known. They are an endemic alpine plant found on the mobile scree slopes of the Southern Alps. They only flower once in their lifetime.